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Events September 2018

The CAP/CASS Innovation in Teaching Showcase is a forum for exploration of a variety of academic ideas, stimulating panel discussions and workshops, and a practical showcase of some of the innovative technologies used in our course work.

Interested in community engagement? Would you like to hear from an international expert about how to ensure that those most impacted by social challenges have a say in designing and implementing solutions?

In the fast-developing and urbanising countries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, questions over the governance and distribution of rural land and forests have not faded, but rather remain central to agrarian concerns.

Never have questions of honesty and integrity in Australia’s national government been more important. This seminar reviews proposals for what should be involved in any new federal anti-corruption reforms.

China’s rise to prominence provides Beijing with natural influence in shaping global governance. The Chinese Communist Party, however, has never been satisfied with diplomacy, the natural draw of the Chinese market, and cultural soft power.

The Colours of Anthropology photography exhibition is an exploration of sensory ethnography with a particular focus on colour. It showcases the photographs of ANU anthropologists taken during their research “in the field” in various places around the world. Please join us for the opening night reception, from 6-8pm on Friday September 14, 2018.

The Colours of Anthropology photography exhibition is an exploration of sensory ethnography with a particular focus on colour. It showcases the photographs of ANU anthropologists taken during their research “in the field” in various places around the world. The exhibition will run for four weeks, from 14 September to October 12, 2018.

In the vast majority of developing countries, young people do not have a formal sector job. Instead, they often earn an income through a range of activities classified by the International Labour Organisation as ‘vulnerable employment’.

According to recent estimates, as much as two-fifths of multinational profits may be shifted to low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions every year, with the impact on the Australian revenue base amounting to as much as $16 billion annually.

Professor Neil Boister, Professor Robert Cribb, Dr Kirsten Sellars, with an introduction by Professor John Blaxland

At this event, three leading experts on international criminal justice in Asia aim to cast new light on the proceedings of the post-war Tokyo Tribunal by re-examining its purposes, conduct and legacies.

This presentation examines Australia’s Mature Age Worker Tax offset (MAWTO), a targeted earned income tax credit of up to $500 to incentivise participation of older workers that existed from 2004-05 to 2014-15.

Recently, more attention has been paid to income inequality in Japan as well as that in the world. Tachibanaki (1998, 2005) and Ohtake (2005, 2008) pointed out that inequality in Japan has increased during the 1980s and 90s.

Breakup of the production processes of an ever-increasing array of products into vertically-separated stages/tasks carried out in several countries (‘global production sharing’) has been the prime mover of the dramatic shift in manufacturing exports fr